Siegel, who has been behind more than 90 film, media and gallery exhibitions, spoke on curating movies for 26 years, his interest in Indian cinema and an upcoming documentary film festival in New York.

Young hosts these days feel compelled to provide tunnels for their little guests to scramble through, or a zorb-ing ball they can tumble in. There may be a magician for entertainment, or a game of dancing statues organised by one screeching parent.

The artist’s studio has been recreated for the occasion in one big room of the renovated Jaipur House wing of the NGMA.

The inspiration for the project that concludes on December 9 came to Nandy when she went about visiting the reading rooms in and around Kochi.

Bollywood actor Sobhita Dhulipala on her next release, The Body, and being a late bloomer.

India’s first queer literature festival in Delhi promises to hold the mic to the audience

Mumbai-based Rajbhar, 33, was in the news two years ago, when he launched a line of bags and other accessories made not from leather, but with rubber.

Chef Suvir Saran on his new book and how the colour of his skin remains a challenge in the US.

As MUBI enters India, Efe Çakarel talks about his experience of acquiring movies in the country and why he is headed to Chennai next.

Hindi writer Prabhat, winner of this year’s Big Little Book Award, on being unafraid to talk to children about difficult things and why nature is significant in his books

An exhibition in the Capital gives insight into the lesser-known links between India and France.

The teak wood models of the temple on display reflect the iconography of the Kalinga architecture and the narratives behind it. For instance, the gajakranta where the lion stands atop the elephant marks its superiority as king.

The 56-year-old, Vadodara-based artist is quick to highlight the art form’s long history, which finds a mention in the pages of The Ramayana. King Janaka orders the creation of the paintings during his daughter Sita’s wedding to Rama.

Actor Purab Kohli on his new webseries Out of Love, the Channel V days and riding the digital wave

This year, there is a wider mix of sounds with the mainstay of rock and metal as well as afro beats and newer electronic sounds. They are celebrating hip-hop in a bigger way this year.

The NCPA, initially conceived by Jamshed Bhabha, was built to further the cause of art and culture in India.

Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, then in his 20s, serving in the Cuban military, would tune into shortwave radio, as Willis Conover’s politics-free broadcasts came on the famed Voice of America Jazz Hour.

The valedictory ceremony for the golden jubilee edition of the festival was held at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium with Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change Babul Supriyo gracing the event.

At the Woodpecker International Film Festival, a documentary will train its lens on how queer people navigate public spaces like the Delhi Metro.

A festival in the Capital brings together new-age poets and storytellers.

Playing live music for silent films may not be new, but what marks UK-based pianist and film academician Jonny Best apart is his spontaneity.

In its ninth edition, Experimenter gallery in Kolkata hosts the annual Curators’ Hub to promote critical discourse.

As she plays the notes, it is her simplicity and sincerity that marks her performance. Lipiak began her multi-city India concert tour from New Delhi on Saturday.

And yet, the furore over Nichols’ tweet seems overblown, probably because South Asians — especially NRIs (who were the most vociferous critics of Nichols’ opinion) have never had a greater global cachet, in modern times, than they do at present.